Adrian Golumbovici wrote:
> Thanks guys. It worked like a charm. Used "cp -Ra" :)
LOL!!!
Always glad to help.
Good luck!
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Thanks guys. It worked like a charm. Used "cp -Ra" :)
Best regards,
Adrian
- Original Message -
From: "Artemio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Moving a partition
> To move
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 11:34 am, Artemio wrote:
> To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P
> 5. now your /usr directory points to / partition instead of /dev/hdc1 - so
> copy (recursively) all data from /mnt/tmp to /usr directory:
> # cp -R /mnt/usr /
NO.
That will lose symbolic links and rese
Op zaterdag 15 november 2003 13:16, schreef Bill Mullen:
> It should be mentioned that there is one more step in the process - fixing
> the /etc/fstab file to reflect the new configuration. If this bit is left
> out, his previous /usr partition will be mounted again just as it has been
> in the pas
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Stefan Rijnhart wrote:
> This is actually straightforward on Linux, which is why we like it :).
> Just boot into a different system, like with a boot disk or live image
> (e.g. Knoppix), and copy the contents of your /mount/point/of/dev/hdc1
> to /mount/point/of/rootdir/usr w
To move a partition is a piece of cake. :-P
In your fstab you will see something like this (I use reiserfs everywhere):
#for your /
/dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 #hda1 is my root - see what's yours
#for your /usr
/dev/hdc1 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2
So what you have to do is:
1. become root
2
Hi Adrian,
This is actually straightforward on Linux, which is why we like it :). Just
boot into a different system, like with a boot disk or live image (e.g.
Knoppix), and copy the contents of your /mount/point/of/dev/hdc1 to
/mount/point/of/rootdir/usr with the rsync command:
rsync -av [sour
Hi all,
Have another prob and couldn't find any answer yet.
On my firewall I have a 3 hdds and /usr is on hdc1. Now hdc1 is a 3.2 GB hdd and
started to fill up. Since I have lots of space on the main drive where / is, I
wanted to move /usr to be one of the "normal" directories on the / part
